This is our Lasius niger, which carries seeds of Viola into its nests, and, as Wittmack has communicated recently to the Sitzungsberichte der gesellschaft naturforschender freunde zu Berlin, does the same with the seeds of Veronica hederaefolia.

FREY, NINA A. Lasius, the lucky ant.

FREY, NINA A. Lasius, the lucky ant.